Abel Selaocoe
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Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary... —
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Songlines, Top of the World, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Newcomer
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary... —
Awards:
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Songlines, Top of the World, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Newcomer
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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The result is powerful, inventive and irresistibly enjoyable...This is an utter delight of an album, offering a potent reminder of the life-affirming power of music to bring joy, and to begin... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Classical Without Borders
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Selaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Special offer. Gaïa
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano), Ayanna Witter-Johnson (cello), Ludovico Einaudi (piano), Frank Braley (piano), Olivia Belli (piano), Abel Selaocoe (cello), Sarah Rebecca (vocals), Capucelli
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello, voice), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
elaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls Ella... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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The result is powerful, inventive and irresistibly enjoyable...This is an utter delight of an album, offering a potent reminder of the life-affirming power of music to bring joy, and to begin... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Classical Without Borders
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Very Best of Karl Jenkins
Nicole Tibbels (soprano), Gary Kettel (percussion), Timothy Rhys-Evans (chorus master), Tim Thorne (horn), Catrin Finch (harp), Clive Bell (shakuhachi), Marat Bisengaliev (orchestra leader, mezzo-soprano), Rupert Christie (programmer), Guy Johnston (cello), Jamie Wright (chorus master), Tori Longdon...
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Karl Jenkins: Miserere - Songs of Mercy and Redemption
Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Abel Selaocoe (cello)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
This is music of consolation, set in a popular idiom, that is surprisingly upbeat in tone given its dedication. The sounds of the casbah fill the air in the opening movement as the singer Belinda... —
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Seckou Keita: African Rhapsodies
A Work for Kora & Symphonic Orchestra
Seckou Keita (kora), BBC Concert Orchestra, Mark Heron
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